How could Hood have been designed from commissioning to survive the Battle of the Denmark Strait?
Short answerA true fast-battleship protection scheme would help, but the fatal hit was sufficiently exceptional that design blame alone is too simple.
NotesThe direct design answer is to build Hood as a fast battleship rather than as a battlecruiser. The panel immediately adds that her loss involved extraordinary bad luck, often described as a golden-BB event. Better protection could reduce vulnerability without guaranteeing survival against every possible hit. The exchange therefore separates legitimate criticism of the design from hindsight that assumes the historical detonation was inevitable.